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SUMMARY:Cherry Poppin' Daddies — Tiki Xmas WWII Canteen
DESCRIPTION:Live at The Bend · West Bend\, Wisconsin \nCherry Poppin’ Daddies \nTiki Xmas — A WWII Canteen Christmas \n\nDouble Platinum\n8-Piece Horn Band\nTwo 50-Minute Sets\nAll Ages\n\nThe horn section behind “Zoot Suit Riot” imagines what a Christmas radio broadcast beamed to soldiers at a USO show in the South Pacific might have sounded like in 1944 — Benny Goodman-style big-band holiday swing\, a Tiki torch lit underneath it\, and the Daddies dressed like grunts on shore leave. \n\n\n\nOne Night Only \nFriday \nDecember 18\, 2026 \n6:30 PMDoors\n7:30 PMShow\nGet Tickets \n\n\n\n\n\n“The Daddies’ high-energy swing music has the unique ability to bring generations together — it’s the only band where teenagers and grandparents are dancing in the same audience.” \nCBS 58\, Milwaukee \n\n\n\nHear It First \nWhat a 1944 South Pacific Christmas sounded like\nThe official trailer for the Tiki Xmas show itself — swing\, Tiki\, and a WWII USO broadcast all at once. \nCherry Poppin’ Daddies: Christmas Canteen \nThe official show reel. \n\n\n\nThirty-Five Years\, One Horn Section \nFrom a Eugene punk band to double platinum\, and back to the stage in period costume\nThe Cherry Poppin’ Daddies formed in Eugene\, Oregon in 1989\, a punk band that couldn’t help mixing in jazz\, funk and ska. Nobody\, least of all the band\, expected 1997’s Zoot Suit Riot to turn them into the sound of a swing revival — but the record went double platinum\, the title track climbed the Billboard chart\, and the Daddies found themselves on The Tonight Show\, Letterman\, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve\, and nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. \nIn the years since\, the band has built a second act almost nobody saw coming: a run of meticulously staged\, era-specific theatrical shows. A “Jazz Age Lawn Party” covers Roaring ’20s and Cotton Club material; a “Live at the Sands”-style production salutes the Rat Pack; and the show coming to West Bend is their World War II “Christmas Canteen” — part Tiki bar\, part Benny Goodman\, staged like a radio broadcast beamed out to soldiers in the Pacific in 1942. \nFrontman Steve Perry has described the mission behind all of it as tracing a direct line from the pre-rock American songbook — Tin Pan Alley\, hot jazz — to the band’s own modern original material\, using the standards audiences already love to open the door to the songs they don’t expect. It’s the same eight-piece horn section either way: the one that went double platinum is the one taking the stage in West Bend. \n\n\nThe Hit List \nWhat double platinum actually looks like\nA short accounting of how far one swing record traveled: \n\nZoot Suit RiotDouble platinum — over two million copies sold1997\nMTV Video Music Award NominationFor the “Zoot Suit Riot” video1998\nNational TelevisionThe Tonight Show\, Letterman\, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve\, The View1997–1998\nWhite Teeth\, Black ThoughtsFirst all-swing studio album since Zoot Suit Riot2013\nBigger Life14-song return to the band’s punk/ska roots2019\nChristmas CanteenThe WWII Tiki holiday production\, touring nationallyOngoing\n\nPress on the Daddies from the Washington Post\, USA Today\, Parade and more at daddies.com. \n\n\nTickets & Seating \nThree ways in\nEvery seat is reserved. Tables are the closest in the room\, and there are only sixteen of those chairs. \n\n$65Table Seating16 seats\n$55Main Floor Reserved279 seats\n$47Value Reserved65 seats\n\nTotal capacity 360. All ticket sales are final — no refunds or exchanges. Please have tickets ready on arrival. \n\n\n\nFollow the Daddies\nSix albums\, thirty-five years\, and a whole second career in period-accurate holiday swing. Start at the source\, then come hear it live. \n\nWebsite\n\nTag @thebendwi when you post from the show. \n\n\n\nPlan Your Visit \nBefore you go\n\nDoors\n6:30 PM\nShow\n7:30 PM · two 50-minute sets\, no opening act\nVenue\nThe Bend Theater\, 125 N. Main Street\, West Bend\, WI 53095\nTickets\nReserve online or stop by the box office. All sales final.\nRoom size\n360 seats. There is no bad one.\nParking\nHundreds of free spaces within a short walk of the marquee.\nQuestions\ntickets@thebendwi.org · (262) 346-7156\nGood to know\nAll ticket sales are final. Please have tickets ready on arrival.\n\n\n\nFriday\, December 18 \nDig out the Hawaiian shirt and the dancing shoes\n\nOn Sale Now \nFriday\, December 18\, 2026 · 7:30 PM \nThe Bend Theater\, 125 N. Main Street\, West Bend. Doors at 6:30 PM. All sales are final. Questions? tickets@thebendwi.org or (262) 346-7156. \nGet Tickets \n\n\nThe Bend Theater · 125 N. Main Street\, West Bend\, WI 53095 · (262) 346-7156Photo by Rod Black. Poster art courtesy of Cherry Poppin’ Daddies / CPD Enterprises\, Inc. Video: Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. Quote from CBS 58\, Milwaukee.
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